Re: [cobalt-users] Perpetual mail locks on Qube2

["Grant [Apple Mechanic] Hutchinson" <grant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Grant [Reset Parameters] Hutchinson typed 
vigorously:

>One thing that I needed to do to get the system back up and running was 
>to delete a 0 byte /var/cobalt/status file. Many of the services on the 
>Qube couldn't start up properly (including the admin web server) until I 
>deleted that file and the system created a new one.

Ok, never mind...

I fixed the problem this afternoon, although I still have no idea why 
this stuff starts in the first place. I'm assuming that it's some 
weirdness with qpopper, but who knows. Somebosy clarify this issue forme 
if you can. At any rate, I solved the recurring mail .lock and .pop files 
by doing the following:

- Turn off email services in Cobalt Admin
- Telnet as root:
     rm /home/spool/mail/.*.pop -i
     rm /home/spool/mail/*.lock -i
     rm /var/cobalt/status
- Reboot server in Cobalt Admin
- Restart email services in Cobalt Admin

Everybody is happy again.

Grant

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